JOSEPH TORIGIAN is an Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and the author of The ...

A stone carving that some scholars believe dates back more than 2,200 years and could carry major cultural significance has ...

New ways to understand metabolism offer pathways for advances in human health and disease Chinese researchers have decoded ...

Located at Hongshan (meaning "red mountain" in Chinese) in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the Hongshanhou ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

In southwest China, the ancient teahouses of the Sichuan provincial capital are being reimagined as hipster hangouts where ...

A 160-million-year-old fungus fossil discovery in China is rewriting the history of ancient ecosystems and their evolutionary relationships.

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...

The rice stuff If papermaking is one of the “four great inventions of ancient China,” xuan paper represents its highest form. Originating in the Tang dynasty (618–907), xuan paper is crafted from the ...

5 fast facts about Ancient China. Around 3,000 years ago, people in ancient China used "oracle bones" — tortoise shells or bones inscribed with Chinese writing — to predict the future.

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum marks the 400th anniversary of the Yamaki Pine, an ancient tree that survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and has since become a symbol of peace.